..2, and Recommendation 16A of the Code (ICZN 2000, 4th edition), and may be formally recognized. Diagnoses for all of these clades were presented in Chakrabarty et al. (2011) and their membership updated in Sparks and Chakrabarty (2015). ..

The first record of a trans-oceanic sister-group relationship between obligate vertebrate troglobites

Prosanta ChakrabartyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 7:e44083. 2012

..One species is endemic to the country, Amatitlania coatepeque. The low number of primary freshwater fishes and endemics is comparable to the Central American Pacific slope in particular, as well as northern Central America in general. ..

..These findings provide insight into our understanding of the diversification patterns across taxonomically disparate lineages in this diverse clade of freshwater fishes and one of the most species-rich families of vertebrates...